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Hacker News (2020)

Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and others file amicus brief in support of NSO lawsuit
20 points • comment • dec 22, 2020
Simple Respiratory Mask (2006)
20 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Poll: Nearly 1 in 5 Households Have Lost Work Because of Pandemic
20 points • comment • mar 18, 2020
Airbnb asks for donations to their hosts
20 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Permanently Beating My Insomnia
20 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Coronavirus: Putin says vaccine has been approved for use
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Out of Nowhere, Something Just Rocked Earths Magnetic Field
20 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Ask HN: What can a technologist do about climate change?
20 points • comment • dec 15, 2020
8000 screenshots of my PC and phone over the past 365 days
20 points • comment • mar 03, 2020
Paper Enigma Machine (2003) [pdf]
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
What is ABI, and What Should WG21 Do About It? [pdf]
20 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Who Will Test the Tests Themselves? (2017)
20 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Apple will begin selling Macs with its own processors in 2021
20 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT (2016) [video]
20 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Singapore Just Sentenced a Drug Trafficker to Death via Zoom
20 points • comment • may 20, 2020
Record Numbers of Americans Try to Buy Guns
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Lasts Longer (2.0)
20 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
U.S. Department of Energy Unveils Blueprint for the Quantum Internet
20 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
US Air Force Flew Half a Million Coronavirus Test Swabs from Italy to Tennessee
20 points • comment • mar 19, 2020
Spotify’s Failed Squad Goals
20 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Hand-optimized interpreter loop in LuaJIT2 (2011)
20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Skill Stacking: How to Achieve Success Whilst Being Average
20 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
Former USAF drone operator says he killed innocents
20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Jay Z, Charles Schwab-Backed Ethereum App Opens Doors to Public
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
Utah sponsors employee travel to Mexico to buy medicines in cheap
20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
Formerly incarcerated software engineers built a no-police alternative to 911
20 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Companies are using webcams to monitor employees working from home
20 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
COBOL Still Handles 70% of Global Business Transactions
20 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
A GraphQL client library without queries: Building a movie app with gqless
20 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Solar farm in Australia could power Singapore via 4,500km undersea cable
20 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Lunar Programming Language
20 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Gearing for Real Cyclists
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2020
Why isn’t California using more prescribed burns to reduce fire risk?
20 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Ask HN: Is there an instant messaging app which has a tree like view?
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Sounds of Silence: When writer’s block strikes
20 points • comment • mar 20, 2020
Fox News lawyers: You literally can't believe the facts a host tells you
20 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
“Apple II Seasons” – A 128-byte Apple II Demo by DESiRE
20 points • comment • may 23, 2020
Gnome OS
20 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Ask HN: Where do you get your news?
20 points • comment • may 15, 2020
The Seamus Heaney Experience
20 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Becoming a blockchain developer
20 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 21
20 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Ask HN: Most life changing things that you bought?
20 points • comment • jun 28, 2020
Is it morally wrong to write inefficient code?
20 points • comment • nov 04, 2020
Evidence over Hysteria – Covid-19
20 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Why is it ok to divide by 0.0?
20 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
New drug alleviates CoV by 90 percent (German)
20 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
20 points • comment • dec 06, 2020
I Went Back Through My Old Emails. It Was Glorious
20 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Detection of Rapidly Growing Informal Settlements
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
The Behavioral Sink (2011)
20 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Guaranteed Optimization: Proving Nullspace Properties of Compilers (2002)
20 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
Step into a time machine: welcome to Amsterdam in 1922, in color and HD
20 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
The Good Old 6502 Microprocessor, but 7000X Bigger
20 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
RetroArch 1.8.5 Released
20 points • comment • mar 21, 2020
Tests show Apple's M1 emulates x86 faster than Intel can run it natively
20 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
First-Mover Advantage
20 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
How should society judge a defendant with a brain tumor? (2017)
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
The AI Engine for the Strategy Game Prismata Is Now Open Source
20 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Tokenized: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
20 points • comment • nov 27, 2020
Show HN: Visualize Data Structures While Debugging in VS Code
20 points • comment • mar 22, 2020
Uber’s delivery business is now larger than ride-hailing
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Defund Facial Recognition Before It's Too Late
20 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
The Technium: The Unabomber Was Right (2009)
20 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Utah sends employees to Mexico for lower prescription prices
20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
New York nightlife never stopped. It just moved underground
20 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites
20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
In Japan more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020
20 points • comment • nov 29, 2020
Analysis Ties Hacking of Bezos' Phone to Saudi Leader's Account
20 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
2000 Year Old Analog Computer - Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism
20 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Plataformatec Acqui-Hired by Nubank
20 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
Microsoft Flight Simulator's new VR mode haunts my dreams
20 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Will AirBnb Go Bankrupt? and When?
20 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
AMD Ryzen 2021-2022 roadmap leaks
20 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Coronavirus Vaccine Test Facility Attacked by Maze Ransomware
20 points • comment • mar 23, 2020
InfraMap: Open-source tool generates human-readable graph from Terraform files
20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Xkcd Smearing Clock
20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
Neurophilosopher argues morality is rooted in brain science, not reason
20 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
FB won't censor Trump's posts, but it will censor an account repeating them
20 points • comment • jun 15, 2020
Ask HN: How do you decide what books to read?
20 points • comment • dec 09, 2020
If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything
20 points • comment • apr 20, 2020
Free Speech Champion Mark Zuckerberg Announces Plan to Censor His Employees
20 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
California Governor Says Elon Musk Delivered 1k Ventilators
20 points • comment • mar 24, 2020
Life and Breath: The human story of how ventilators came to breathe for us
20 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Apple’s T2 Security Chip Has Created a Nightmare for MacBook Refurbishers
20 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Why Isn't Susan Wojcicki Getting Grilled by Congress?
20 points • comment • nov 18, 2020
The Week America Lost Control of the Pandemic
20 points • comment • jul 03, 2020
Copyright Small Claims Has Arrived: Trump Signs Case Act into Law
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Show HN: Single Python API Client for Google Sheets and MS Excel APIs
20 points • comment • may 09, 2020
Show HN: I made a solar-powered, ePaper photo frame
20 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Your biggest problem right now is denial
20 points • comment • mar 25, 2020
2020: An Isolation Odyssey
20 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020
20 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
It's a Wonderful Life
20 points • comment • dec 25, 2020
Consider the Hare
20 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Cornell offers 'person of color' exemption for flu vaccine requirement
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2020
Epic Gives in to Google and Releases Fortnite on the Play Store
20 points • comment • apr 21, 2020
How Predictable Is Fiction?
20 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
Mobile phone industry explores worldwide tracking of users
20 points • comment • mar 25, 2020